Real-time Shape-based Sensory Substitution for Object Localization and Recognition


Pourghaemi H., Gholamalizadeh T., Mhaish A., İnce G., Duff D. J.

11th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), Rome, İtalya, 25 - 29 Mart 2018, ss.45-50 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Rome
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.45-50
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, we present a new approach to real-time tracking and sonification of 3D object shapes and test the ability of blindfolded participants to learn to locate and recognize objects using our system in a controlled physical environment. In our sonification and sensory substitution system, a depth camera accesses the 3D structure of objects in the form of point clouds and objects are presented to users as spatial audio in real time. We introduce a novel object tracking scheme, which allows the system to be used in the wild, and a method for sonification of objects which encodes the internal 3D contour of objects. We compare the new sonfication method with our previous object-outline based approach. We use an ABA/BAB experimental protocol variant to test the effect of learning during training and testing and to control for order effects with a small group of participants. Results show that our system allows object recognition and localization with short learning time and similar performance between the two sonification methods.